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Exchange Bank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$73kHuman Services$70kRecreation & Sports$54kArts & Culture$44kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kYouth Development$35kHealth$22kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$26k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SONOMA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY$4,500
SONOMA ECOLOGY CENTER$3,800
PETALUMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$3,658
CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$3,225
PLUMFIELD ACADEMY$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NORTH BAY CHILDREN'S CENTER (NBCC): $5k → 8%North Bay Children's Center: $4k → 8%THE LIVING ROOM: $5k → 9%The Living Room: $3k → 9%OAKS OF HEBRON INC: $3k → 9%GREENACRE HOMES: $5k → 9%TLC CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $3k → 9%Ceres Community Project: $3k → 9%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $3k → 9%PEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC (PDI): $3k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $3k → 9%Canine Companions for Independence: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$158k · 12 repeat orgs$268k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
71

Total granted

$158k
$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+50%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SR
    SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +26%
  • THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT
    5× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +392%
  • TL
    THE LIVING ROOM CENTER
    3× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • SR
    SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +132%
  • SR
    SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FND
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +76%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
3
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
4
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter
5
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights
6
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
7
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
8
Sonoma Community Center

SCC exists to enrich the lives of the people of Sonoma Valley by fostering a broad range of cultural, educational, recreational and community service activities in an affordable space as well as helping to preserve and restore our historic…

Human Services
9
Sonoma Valley Health & Recreation Association

Sonoma Valley Health and recreation Association (Sonoma Splash) is dedicated to providing a sustainable state of the art multi-use aquatic and recreation facility accessible to all Sonoma Valley residents for aquatic education and safety,…

Recreation & Sports
10
Sonoma Preschool Academy

preschool and after-care for children ages 2-5.

Education
11
Solano Family & Childrens Council Inc

Solano Family & Children's Services promotes and advocates for the well-being of children, their families, and child care providers by offering access to a variety of child care resources.

Human Services
12
Solano Community Foundation

The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Young Women's Christian Association of Sonoma County and the most unlike its peers is Ruthless Kindness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%8%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr22%33%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr22%24%20–35yr15%34%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
10%
258/2,547

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sonoma County Library Foundation — $25,000 · OtherSonoma County Library FoundationSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE — $20,000 · OtherSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGEMENTOR ME — $10,000 · OtherSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FND — $10,000 · OtherFOOD FOR THOUGHT — $10,000 · Other+55 more — $166,863 · Other+55 moreTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $16,142 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNI…THE LIVING ROOM CENTER — $11,300 · Human ServicesTHE LIVING ROOM C…NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $8,500 · Human ServicesNORTH BAY CHILDRE…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $6,522 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS…THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S…Greenacre Homes Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesGreenacre Homes I…TLC Child and Family Services — $3,500 · Human ServicesTLC Child and Fam…VILLAGE NETWORK OF PETALUMA — $3,000 · Human ServicesPEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesOAKS OF HEBRON INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $18,200 · Arts & CultureSANTA ROSA …Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse — $6,000 · Arts & CultureSanta Rosa …Sebastopol Center for the Arts — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSebastopol …VALLEY OF THE MOON OBSERVATORY ASSOCIATION — $4,952 · Arts & CultureVALLEY OF T…HEALDSBURG PERFORMING ARTS THEATER — $3,000 · Arts & CultureHEALDSBURG …HEALDSBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureHEALDSBURG …Petaluma Community Access Inc — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSONOMA COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsSONOMA COU…THE ZONES — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentFree to Be — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY — $5,000 · Crime & LegalPOLLY KLAAS FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Crime & LegalRuthless Kindness — $2,600 · Crime & LegalSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education
Other$241,863Human Services$64,464Arts & Culture$43,152Recreation & Sports$40,000Youth Development$15,500Crime & Legal$11,100Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSONOMA COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetSonoma County Library Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $18,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $16,142 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER — $11,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ZONES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMENTOR ME — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $6,522 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES — $5,007 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreenacre Homes Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSebastopol Center for the Arts — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Support Network — $4,960 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY OF THE MOON OBSERVATORY ASSOCIATION — $4,952 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSonoma Ecology Center — $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLLY KLAAS FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA ROSA UNITED SOCCER CLUB — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTLC Child and Family Services — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE NETWORK OF PETALUMA — $3,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetREDWOOD GOSPEL MISSIONS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALDSBURG PERFORMING ARTS THEATER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarle Baum Center of the Blind Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALDSBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRuthless Kindness — $2,600 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOAKS OF HEBRON INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFree to Be — $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPetaluma Community Access Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFACE TO FACE SONOMA COUNTY AIDS NETWORK — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTESCAPE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHomes 4 The Homeless Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationThe Heck FoundationSonoma County Vintner…Bothin FoundationMarin Community Found…Sonoma Valley Vintner…Speedway Children's C…The William G Irwin C…Codding FoundationWomen Giving as One I…Weinreb Pilecki Segal…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA69.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Heck Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Codding Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · Weinreb Pilecki Segal Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Exchange Bank Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Exchange Bank Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Exchange Bank Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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